St. Paul daily globe., 1887-11-06
NO. 80.


business would be thick-Skinned,
plodding, reSolute man, who would keep
pegging away upon the lines of the
government policy.
BALFOUR CHAFES TOO MUCH,
ever since he has succeeded in getting
his most troublesome enemy, Mr..
GBrien, into Jail, and if he is not care
full, will not bear the strain of the win
ter's work. Practically, however, Lord
AShbourne is his colleague in the office,
and the attorney general is the Joint
agent; so that at present, in fact, though
not in name, the office of chief secretary
is IN commission. Among the recent
conversions to the creed of disestablish-
ment, none is more remarkable than
that OF Sir William Harcourt, who, him
self the son of rector and the grand
son OF an archbishop, used to pride him
self upon being the soundest Erastian
in the church of England, the late
Archbishop TAFT being good second.
The adhesion of Mr.. Gladstone to the
policy of disestablishment with regard
to the Welsh church and the sympathy
he expressed with total diSeStabliSh-
| ment in Scotland will undoubtedly be
attended by far-reaching and long-en-
during consequences. 1t has already
gained many converts to the cause. IL
only the clergy of the threatened estab-
IlShmentS could be wise in time they
would make terms with Gladstone, Sc
cure him as their best friend and COM
init their interests to his keeping. Re-
llgiOn is, after all, the greatest force in
human life, and Mr.. GladstOne'S author
ity rests in no slight degree upon the
religious habit of his mind. Throughout
his public life the interests of religion
nave been among the main factors of his
| DOIIcV. When ha {c in ant bOritv rnlin-
| ion .'lifts her mitred front in courts and
parliaments," and even his opponents
realize that, however little they may
| like his dealings with the forms and
trappingS of religious establishment,
1.-THE inner part or thing signifed'' is
| safe in his hands. This general recog-
! milton of Mr.. Gladstone as genuinely
| religious man would give him special
fitness for the work of disestablish-
ment and peculiar authority in deal
| Ing with it. They would recognize in
! Gladstone reverence for the past and
| his constitutional learning exactly the
combination of gifts necessary for the
adequate discharge of so great and deli
cate work. During the last years Of
the Irish establishment that institution
had no more valiant or Skillful cham
piOn than certain ArchdeacOn Stop
ford. This acute and learned church.
man fought Mr.. Gladstone's designs by
pen and tongue, by private influence
and public agitation, and was the pro-
tagonist of the doomed establishment.
But the general election of 1868 was
ended, the arch deacon saw that the
time was up, and instead of prolonging
a useless resistance to the inevitable he
made OvertureS to the victorious poll
tician, and devoted the whole of his
energies to securing the best possible
terms for the church about to be discs
tablished.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL'S VISION
of the future perplexes his club critics
as much as it does other politicians. No
one seems to understand how it can be
that Mr.. Gladstone is, in the event of a
defeat OF the government. to dissolve
parliament. If there is one thing absO-
lutely certain, it is that should Lord
Salisbury'S health enable him to con-
tinue at the helm he will be the minister
upon whose advice her majesty will dis
solve this parliament. No politician of
authority, except Lord Randolph, has
ever supposed that Mr.. Gladstone would
return to power Until after the next ap-
peal to the country. Mr.. Gladstone is
confident that the Irish question as to
social order and self government could
be settled in single session, and would
submit to no pr0rOgation till the bill
was passed. The house of lords would
not and could not fOlce the appeal to
the country which Lord Randolph sug-
gestS. If the lords were to reject the
bill twice, it would be presented again
in the same session by adjournments.
The rule that the same motion may not
be made after rejection In the same ses-
sion does not apply to bills which are
in fact rainafQH h,t nnlr
pOned. If the government should fall
over the Irish land purchase next sea-
son, as Lord Randolph and others pre-
dict, and an election in the autumn was
to give Mr.. Gladstone a sufficient ma
jority, there is no reason to doubt that
he would pass a home rule bill in the
session of 1899.
BOULANGER's LUCK.
Whether Gen. Boulanger be the
architect of circumstances or the favor
ite of fortune, very few will determine;
but that the latest move of his enemies
has been the luckiest for him that has
been made in his game for popularity,
many unhesitatingly assert. The con-
structive Imprisonment of the man who
is the incarnation of La Revanche, and
the opinions of the German press on
the action taken by Gen Ferron, have
enucdIcU lIHl uiOIo cIOScly u Gu0
French people, and there are a number
of leading French politicians who as
sert that, were President Grevy to re-
sign, these would be the means of elect
ing Gen. Boulanger to the presidency,
the Office he has long been laying for.
One frank criticism, they say, bya
and truthful enemy, is more
useful than thousand gushing flatter.
les in case of this kind. The ill-cOn-
cealed jubilatiOn of the German news
papers over what the editors have tried
to persuade themselves was the down.
fall of BOulanger speaks volumes for
the power and influence of the man. So
long as BOulanger was kept in Obscur-
ity he ceased to be dangerous person.
Perhaps the very fact that his enemies
have failed to leave him out of their
is but proof that his
genius deStineS him to a splendid fate.
However this may be, sufficient has
in the career of Boulanger to
those who do not willfully
blind their judgement that the latest
coup of Gen. Ferron has dangerously
increased the popularity of the apostle
)f La Revanche.
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria is,with
wisdom, acting upon the
policy of quieta non movere. He recOg-
lizes the fact that it is Russia's turn to
move next. The popular elections re-
ulted by decided majority in his fa-
or. He is the ruler of Bulgaria by the
hoice and will of the Bulgarians.
Ieanwhile the much talked of confer
nee of the powers still hangs fire owing
o the decision of the cZar never to send
representative to any international
difference again, unless previous
greement has been arrived at on the
OintS tn ba hrOuOht under pOnSidara-
ion.
THE CZAR DECLINES
0 enter into the proposed conference at